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On 1/30/2018 12:42 PM, wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:29:12 -0700, graham > wrote:
>
>> On 2018-01-30 10:29 AM, CaÃ*da de la casa wrote:
>>> On 1/30/2018 10:07 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>> On 1/30/2018 11:56 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It is indeed a major difference between Catholics and Protestants
>>>>> now. A few hundred years ago when the Protestant Reformation came
>>>>> along there were a lot of issues that Luther and his followers had
>>>>> problems with. Mass and Bibles were in Latin, so people didn't
>>>>> realize that a lot of stuff that they were being told was fabricated
>>>>> by the church and had nothing to do with the Bible. They objected to
>>>>> the concept of Purgatory and rich people being able to buy their way
>>>>> to heaven by paying indulgences.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The Catholic Church was consistent in some of their teachings though.
>>>> Use your church envelope with your donation.Â* Every week there was a
>>>> money message of some sort.
>>>
>>>
>>> So yo figure the Church should be a freebie with no donations?

>> The churches are, in effect, big businesses and should be taxed.

>
> Years ago, when people still wrote Letters to the Editor, I wrote to
> our local paper saying churches should be taxed on their funding and
> also property taxes like the rest of us. In the end we changed our
> phone number, the calls, mostly from RC church goers were terrible.
> They didn't want to argue, but to yell, shout and condemn out of hand.
>


Congratulations shrew, you have learned that spouting off brings
reactions, some you dislike.

Just as they disliked what you said.

Duh.